Window-washing apparatus



R. I. ARBOGAST.

WINDOW WASHING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-28,1919.

1,334,209. Patented Mar. 16, 1920.

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WINDOW-WASHING- ARPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 16, 1920.

Application filed. August 28, 1919; Serial No. 320,400.

To all whom it may concern:

Ileit known that I, ROLAND IVAN Annoons'r, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in lVindow -Washing Appa ratus; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in window washing apparatus.

The main object of the invention is to provide a window washer which may be easily manipulated to wash the outside surface of a window pane from the inside of the room "without having to lean or hang out of the window, as is the usual practice.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device of the above mentioned character which is simple in construction, strong, durable, eflleotive in operation and inexpensive to manufacture.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent during the course oi? the following description.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same,

Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of a device constructed in accordance with my invention, illustrating the use of the same on a window.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the clean ing element.

Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the shoe.

Fig. .4: is an enlarged perspective view oi. one of the locking members. i

In the drawings, wherein forthe purpose oil. illustration is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention the numeral. 1 indicates a window frame of the usual construction, which includes a sub-sill. 2 and a window-sill 3..

The window washer COIHPIISBS. a substantially U shaped handleor supports, which by preference, isformed from a single iece of hollow pipe or the like and inclu es a vertical. long-arm 5 for disposition outside of the window; a short arm 6- which is adapted to be disposed at the interior of the window or inside the room and ahorizontal intermediate portion 7. The short arm 6 is provided. with a hand grip 8 of: any suitable construction.

The cleaning element COIIIPIISQS a metal cross-plate 9 which includes a relatively smaller clamping plate 10, whereby the said plates are permitted to rotate freely around. the arm 5. One end of the plate 9 is bent at right angles to the body portion at 11 and has a brush 12 secured thereto in any convenient manner. The opposite end 18 of the plate is bent oppositely from the portion 11, the samebeing bent at an angle of about 60 degrees, and the extremeend 14 is bent from the portion 13 at an angle of about 90 degrees, a squeegee 15 being attached thereto in any convenient manner. Thus it will be seen that the brush 12 will.

be first used. to wash the window and then,

the squeegee brought into operative pos1-- tion.

I employ a shoe 16 slidable along the portion 7 of the handle, the said shoe acting as a bearing for the handle thus perinitting the device to be moved from left to right or vice versa,along the sub-sill 2 and bearing against the sill 1. member includes a wooden block 17 which is provided with around projection or neck 18, which is surrounded by a single metal plate or hearing 19, as shown, being fastened thereto by a pin or rivet 20 which extends through the said neck and plate.

The bearing plate 19 loosely surrounds the portion 7 of the handle, and thus permits the shoe to be moved horizontally and adjusted to the desired position. The bearing plate 19 may be secured together in any suitable manner, such as for instance by a r1vet21.

Locking members 22 are employed "to hold the cleaning element in non-rotatable position, and to limit the sliding or- The shoe movement of the shoe member 16. The con- I thus locking the cleaning element struction of these locking members is shown in Fig. 4; in which, by preference, I employ a sleeve 23, a bifurcated lug or tongue 24-, and a set-screw :25.

The operation of the device is as follows :The brush 12 is dipped in a pail of water before the device is Jlacec etside of the window. This may be done either by removing the brush and squeegee off of the handle or, the brush may be dipped while in position on the handle although the first method will be found to be more convenient. After the brush has been dipped and put in place on the handle, the long arm 5 will be placed outside of the window, the operator standing inside of the room. Of course, it will be necessary to raise the lower sash enough to permit this device to be brought into operative position. When in operative position the brush 12 should contact with the outer surface of the upper sash, which we Will assume is now belng washed, and the shoe 16 adjusted along the portion 7 of the handle to permit the brush to come into close contact with the glass. When in proper relation to each other the locking member or sleeve 22 should be brought into locking position, that is, the bifurcated lug portion 24 should straddle the cross plate 9, against rotation, and I the shoe should be locked against sliding and pivotal movement in a like manner. When the device is in this position, as shown in Fig. l, the operator will catch hold of the handle grip placing the brush and shoe 16 at the left side of the windowsash, making sure that the shoe 1t; and the brush 12 are in proper alin'einent witheach other and are bearing on the subsill 2 and against the window-sill 1. Then icy pulling the handle toward her and at the same time'sliding it from the left toward the right and back again, a strip equal to the length of the brush will be cleaned.

, Thewindow may then belowered or raised as the case may be, and the operation continued until the entire window is washed. The operatormay then reach out the window in the most convenient manner and lift the brushout of engagement with the looking sleeve 22 and swing or rotate the crossplate 9 to bring the squeegee into contact with the window, thus removing the water by operating the device in the same manner as above described. a

It is;to be understood that the form of my invention herein shown and described is to be taken as a preferred example of the same and that various changes in the shape, size and arrangement sorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claims,

V dle to retain the collar of parts may be re Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

l. A window washing apparatus comprising a substantially Ushaped handle, a portion of which is adapted to be disposed outside of the window, the other portion of which is adapted to be disposed inside of the window, the intermediate portion of the handle being substantially straight, a shoe rotatable and slidable on said straight portion of the handle and adapted to be slid across aportion of the window sill to move the cleaning element across the window pane, a locking collar rotatable and slidable on" said straight portion of the handle, means coacting with the collar and the hanin a fixed position on the handle, and means carried by the collar and engageable with the shoe to prevent movement of the handle with respect to the shoe.

A window washing apparatus comprising a cleaning element, a handle for the cleaning element, a portion of said handle to be disposed outside of the window and a portion to be disposed inside of the window, a .shoe carried by said handle and adapted to he slid along a portion of a window-sill, said shoe being slidable on said handle in a direction transverse to the window sash, and means to lock the handle against rotary movement with respect to the shoe, substantially as described.

3. A window washer comprising a substantially U-shaped handle, a portion of which is adapted to be disposed outside of the window, the other portion of which is adapted to be disposed inside of the window, the intermediate portion of the handle being substantially straight, a shoe slidable on said straight intermediate portion of the handle, said shoe including a bearing which surrounds said handle, and a de pending leg which is connected to a block, said block being adapted to bear on and slide along a portion of the window-sill, and a collar surrouudingsaid handle and having a bifurcated lug portion which is adapted to straddle the depending leg of the bearing and prevent slidable or pivotal movement of the handle with respect to the shoe.

A window washing apparatus comprising a handle, a cross-plate rotatably and slidably mounted on said handle, cleaning elements secured to cross-plate, a collar rotatably and slidably mounted on said handle, means coactin with the collar and the handle to retain said collar in a fixed position, and means carried by said collar and engageable with the crossplate to prevent the latter from rotary or sliding movement on the handle.

5. A Window washer comprising a subthe opposite ends of said stantially U-shaped handle, a cross-plate 1'otatable on said handle, a brush secured to one end of said cross-plate and a squeegee secured to the other end thereof, a shoe slidably rotatably mounted on said. handle, said shoe including a bearing and block, said block being adapted to slide along a portion of a Window sill, and a pair of sleeves slidahle on said handle, each sleeve having a bifurcated lug portion, one of said sleeves being adapted to engage and hold the cross-plate in operative position and the other sleeve engage With said bearing to prevent rotary movement of the handle with respect to the said hearing.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

ROLAND IVAN ARBOGAST. 

